Mandrake in the News ----------------------------------------
CNET provides an analysis of MandrakeSoft's Initial Public
Offering: -- French Linux company braves IPO
waters -- "When I look at the consolidation of the Linux
market, I think MandrakeSoft is one of the few companies that will
survive, even though Red Hat has become the de facto standard for
enterprise". http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6627298.html?tag=mn_hd

Spotlight on the Clara OCR Free Software
project ---------------------------------------- One of the many
exciting Free Software projects that MandrakeSoft sponsors is Clara
OCR. Clara OCR is a free (GPL) Optical Character Recognition
program for Linux/Unix. It features a powerful GUI and a web
interface for cooperative digitalization of printed materials.
Clara OCR development started in 1999 and is approaching production
level.

Everyone is invited to test Clara OCR and participate in the
project. To learn more about Clara OCR, please visit the website at
http://www.claraocr.org/
where you can view screenshots, read the FAQ and online tutorial.
The project's
announcement page is also available.

Business Case of the Week
---------------------------------------- "Mandrake is
becoming a consultant's dream." A computer consultant
recommends Mandrake Linux to his clients for gateways, DNS, email,
web, FTP and database duties: "Every site that called me with a
problem today was running IIS+Windows on their LAN and had
contracted the Code Red Worm. I have sites still running their
original Mandrake 6.0 installation (plus updates), and they only
ever call me for problems with the few remaining Windows
workstations on their LAN, or for hardware failures."
http://www.mandrakebizcases.com/article.php?sid=126&mode=thread&order=0

Top Stories of the Week from MandrakeForum
---------------------------------------- Ximian Gnome for
Mandrake 8.0. A reader writes: "Does anyone know the
status of Ximian Gnome and Mandrake 8.0? I have been watching
Ximian's web site and they said that a port was being worked on. I
have also seen messages over the last couple of months with no
replies. Is this a project that Mandrake is working on or is it low
on the list for the Ximian folks?"
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1102&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

MandrakeSoft IPO confirmed. Jacques Le Marois
(CEO of MandrakeSoft) makes an important announcement: "I am proud
to announce that we have received the "Visa COB" yesterday evening
to go public on the French Marché Libre. We will be listed
on the market July 30th. Mandrakesoft will be the first Linux
company listed in Europe on a public market."
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1099&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

How would YOU advertise Linux for the Desktop?
Putting Linux on a server instead of windows is a "no-brainer": a
Linux box will provide everything that a Windows box can, and more,
for a fraction of cost and no one except the system administrator
knows what runs on a server machine anyway. But, how would YOU make
people switch over from Windows to Linux?
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1096&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

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